salt
/sɑlt/noun, verb, adjective1 syllable
Salt means: white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food.
Synonyms for salt9
noun, as in white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
noun, as in the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
noun, as in negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons
adjective, as in (of speech) painful or bitter
What does salt mean?9
noun
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
adjective
(of speech) painful or bitter“salt scorn”
verb
add salt to
sprinkle as if with salt“the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps”
add zest or liveliness to“She salts her lectures with jokes”
preserve with salt“people used to salt meats on ships”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with salt?7
Salt in a sentence
- If it were not for water and salt, we could not live.CK
- In those days, sugar was less valuable than salt.CK
- Excuse me, could you pass me the salt and pepper?blay_paul
- Some salt comes from mines, some from water.Source_VOA
- He stood motionless, like a pillar of salt.espjulie
- I don't know if other countries have salt bread, too.mervert1
- The food is good, but you could have added a bit more salt.mervert1
- If you are done with the salt, please pass it to me.CC
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of salt
as a noun
- plural
- salts
as a verb
- past tense
- salted
- present participle
- salting
- third-person singular
- salts